Slacker!

Yes I admit it...I am a slacker. I haven't posted in awhile. In the next few weeks I hope to post the pictures from Tom and Kriss trip here. It was a blast, we did a lot of traveling and saw a lot of things that we hadn't seen yet. I think Brugges is now my new favorite place in Europe. So much chocolate! It was fantastic.

Since then nothing has really been going on. I am working on school, down to my last to terms, starting to think about graduation, which will be spring '09, but I don't think I will be able to go. We will probably have moved on to bigger and better things, since we are scheduled to leave sometime in the Spring of '09. Today we went to the Italian Republic Celebration, which is kind of like the Italians version of the 4th of July. It was fun, I love everything Italian, the food, the culture, the music and much more.

Be looking for some pictures in the very near future......(I hope)

Fussen & castle pictures

Finally....the last pictures! These are the pictures from when we were in Fussen and when we were at the Hohenschwangua and Neuschwanstein castles. In another posting I have more info about our days there...these are just the pictures. A little late....I know.

In other, more recent news. Kriss and Tom made it here last Wednesday. We haven't been doing much traveling yet. We have just been hanging around the house, Friday we went over to Heinsberg and had ice cream, then Sunday we went over to Tongeren for the antiques market. Luke and I didn't find anything that we just had to have but Kriss found some really neat stuff including a bowl made from St. Lamberts glass which is gorgeous. i love that glass but it is so expensive and I worry that it will break when we move back to the states. Tomorrow we are leaving for the Mosel region, we will spend a few days there then go up to Brugges, Belgium probably stopping for a day in Luxembourg City then spending two nights in Brugges. Should be fun, we are driving so we won't have to deal with the stresses of hauling stuff on and off trains!

Dachau/Paris/Amsterdam Pictures

A few of the pictures from Dachau, Amsterdam and Paris. We didn't have too many in Amsterdam and Paris because we were about pictured out after Munich and Fussen. The last pictures I need to do are the dreaded castle/Fussen pictures! There are so many of them so I have saved them for last. I am hoping, emphasis on HOPING, to get them up here before Tom and Kriss get here next week. I don't want to get too far behind. But being that I am a huge procrastinator they may not be up for awhile.

Munich Photos

The long awaited photos....at least the ones from Munich.

Vacation Pictures

I know there are no pictures!! I will hopefully get them up sometime this weekend. Between all of our cameras we have over 1000 pictures!! I need to get them all uploaded and organized and then I will be putting them up here on the blog!!

Amsterdam

April 15, 2008

Today was quite eventful. We decided that we didn't want to waste any vacation time sitting around so we headed to Amsterdam for a day. None of us had been there before so it was an adventure for us all! We got up early and left to the train station. We had to go to Schinnen instead of Geilenkirchen, since we needed to be on the Netherlands train line. The ride there wasn't too bad, only about two hours. We got into town about 11am. Then we decided we were hungry and of course we decided we had to eat at the Hard Rock. So we went out searching without having a map or any idea where we were heading. We stopped in a bunch of souvenir stores so that Blake and Katie could pick up some gifts. We headed in the direction of the Hard Rock, we only got lost a few times on the way.
The Hard Rock was fun. Blake frustrated the waiter and had the manager called, they were all screwing with him because he asked for a napkin. All the people working there were like Australian and Americans. The manager was from San Francisco, he said if anyone goes to the San Francisco Hard Rock tell the manager there, Austin, that Bobby T. says hey. The food was actually really good there, probably the best Hard Rock food we had on our trips.
After we ate we took a canal boat tour, which was pretty interesting, except that it went pretty slow and I almost fell asleep. After the tour we went to the infamous Red Light District. Even in the daylight it is gross, but interesting. I can't imagine being there at night, there were plenty of creepy people there during the day. It was easy to spot the people who were trying to sell drugs.
Then the train ride back,,,which was a nightmare. We got on the train back to Schinnen and we were going along just fine until we hit Herstogenbosch, where the train stops. I guess something had jumped the tracks we needed to be on to get to Eindhoven. So nothing was able to get to where we needed to go. So we sat at the train station for 2 hours until the tracks were cleared. Finally we got on the train and made it to Sittard. Unfortunately, someone...ok me....got us on the wrong train and we ended up in Maastricht. From Maastricht we had to go to Heerlen and than from Heerlen to Schinnen. So when we left we were planning on being home by 7pm but instead we got home at 1130pm!
Luckily we were able to get a hold of Marita so she was able to check on the dogs and let them outside. I thought that it was a pretty fun day, even the trains, but I know everyone else didn't agree with me. Especially Luke since he was supposed to be doing homework!

Fun stuff